In His Final Show of the Year, John Oliver Asks What Happened and How Did We Get Here (Video)
The entire "Last Week Tonight" episode was dedicated to making sense of Donald Trump's election by analyzing the roles of media and social media in our society, as well as asking viewers not to let an extremely abnormal situation become normalized. And then the host and many others yelled expletives at a terrible, good for nothing year: 2016.The entire episode of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show was dedicated to making sense of Donald Trump’s election by analyzing the roles of media and social media in our society, as well as asking viewers not to let an extremely abnormal situation become normalized. And then the host and many others yelled expletives at a terrible, good for nothing year: 2016.
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